I Love Geography

I Love Geography

Monday, 8 November 2010

Can global warming be a good thing? For some people it could be.

Greenlanders are possible the only people in the world who are happy about global warming. To most of the world the rapidly melting Greenland ice sheets mean rising ocean levels, reduced growing seasons and possible famine. However with more of Greenland, a vast landmass, becoming accessible  oil exploration becomes easier and mineral deposits can become discovered, mountains uncovered by the thaw have revealed visible zinc deposits. Although this probably won't make Denmark the next world superpower as long as temperatures keep rising an oil an mineral boom is bound to come.

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